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About me

Frontend, in practice,
for over 6 years.

Computer Science, incomplete — I learned the rest by building: real systems, bug after bug, project after project.


Who I am

My full name is Allan Guilherme Beira Oliveira — around the site and in daily life I go by Allan G. B. Oliveira, but I'm leaving it here in full for anyone confirming this is the same person from LinkedIn.

Where I come from

TriPagamentos was my first real job, and I walked in knowing almost nothing. Everything I had came from college — Algorithms and Data Structures in plain C, polymorphism in Java, three semesters of Databases — not a single line about building for the actual web. On my first day, a coworker walked me through spinning up the environment with Docker, and I somehow tried editing a file inside the vendor folder without understanding why it was even there. It was there, between Laravel on the backend and Vue.js on the front, that I learned Carbon and Facades the hard way, built an affiliate system from scratch, and integrated a payment gateway and electronic invoicing without ever having touched either before — and only in the last few months, once I asked to focus more on frontend and spent my entire final week chasing responsive bugs right up to my last day, did I realize with total clarity that this was what I wanted to do.

The challenge that made me grow

Years later, at K13, I built a site for a grain trading company that consumed WordPress as an API inside a Vue/Nuxt SPA — it looked great. The problem was I knew nothing about technical SEO, Lighthouse, Schema.org, Search Console. I built what I knew, and the performance, I now know, was terrible. That's the moment that marked me the most technically: discovering a real gap in something I thought I already knew how to do. I never forgot it — it's basically the reason everything documented about performance and accessibility in this very portfolio exists.

Real weight, real decisions

At Avanti I worked across VTEX stores of every size — legacy ones carrying years of technical debt from different hands, and others running IO with React. That's where I learned frontend decisions can carry real weight: on a Black Friday, trying to save time by swapping the seasonal theme on three stores from the same group at once, I mixed up the files between sister brands — right at the year's traffic peak. It worked out because I always kept a local backup before any change, but the scare stuck with me. Ever since, I treat even a small CSS tweak on a real e-commerce with the respect it deserves.

Real complexity

Grupo 3C was the complexity leap of my career: one giant SPA, a single monolith, with three teams coding the same project at once. I walked in having to relearn Vue.js after a stretch working only with VTEX and React, straight into the Composition API. I built a GraphQL dashboard solo, real-time systems over WebSockets, a funnel Kanban that's still one of the things I'm proudest of having built. And I learned, firsthand, the real cost of skipping testing discipline — we spent months just cleaning up bugs accumulated from sprints that only focused on shipping feature after feature. It changed how I think about delivery pace ever since.

How I work today

Performance and accessibility are acceptance criteria, not a last-minute review — I test against Lighthouse, WAVE and the IBM Equal Access Checker while the design can still change, not after it's already live. Mobile-first is where CSS starts, not an exception breakpoint. I document technical decisions and the reasoning behind them — including what didn't work — because it saves time for whoever touches that code next, including myself, on my own project, a year from now.

  • Clean Code
  • Product-Minded
  • Agile
  • Detail-Oriented

Career Path

  1. 2024 – 2025Grupo 3C
    Frontend Engineer
    Vue.jsWebSocketsGraphQLGenerative AIVue Flow
    • Partners and Audiences systems — partnerships and CSV mailing lists with CNAE filters and lead enrichment
    • Products & Services built from scratch — categories, monetary values and complex rules
    • CRM with Kanban, activity scheduling and an analytics dashboard in GraphQL + Chart.js
    • Real-time WhatsApp Omnichannel over WebSockets, with a Vue Flow chatbot and Generative AI
    • Bulk messaging (SMS/WhatsApp/IVR) — Step Wizard with real-time monitoring
  2. 2022 – 2023Avanti
    Frontend Engineer · VTEX Specialist
    VTEX IOVTEX LegacyReactTypeScriptGTM
    • Grupo Clamed (Preço Popular, Drogaria Catarinense, Manipulação) and São João Farmácias — VTEX IO with React
    • Adega Alentejana and Daniela Tombini — maintaining VTEX Legacy stores with years of technical debt
    • Deployed the Black Friday seasonal theme to production under real traffic pressure
    • Evolutionary support on VTEX IO and Legacy stores — API consumption, CMS, customizations
  3. 2021 – 2022K13
    Frontend Developer
    Vue.jsNuxtSCSSVanilla JSSEO
    • High-end institutional sites, e-commerces and LPs — Prospecta, Planta Sul, Pedra Brilhante, Expressiva
    • Migrated from HTML/SCSS/Vanilla JS to Vue.js + Nuxt SSR/SSG
    • Built a cookie-consent system from scratch — from iPhone 4 to 4K screens
    • First contact with Lighthouse — technical SEO and performance as a priority
  4. 2020 – 2021Let's Grow
    Fullstack Developer
    PHPLaravelPostgreSQLVue.jsTailwind
    • Online course-selling system — Hotmart-style, with seller and student areas
    • Full REST API — routes, validations, Repository Pattern, Models and Migrations
    • Full Tailwind CSS redesign near the end of my time there — member area and admin
    • This is where I found out Frontend was my calling

Tech Stack

Frontend

  • Vue.js · Nuxt 4
  • React · Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • SCSS · Tailwind
  • Lit (Web Components)
  • CSS/JS Animations

E-commerce & CMS

  • VTEX IO · Legacy
  • Magento (integration)
  • WordPress (Headless)
  • GTM · Analytics

Backend & Infra

  • Node.js
  • PHP · Laravel
  • Docker · Traefik
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • WebSockets

Practices

  • Clean Code
  • Component Design
  • SSR · SSG · CSR
  • Technical SEO
  • CI/CD
  • Agile